Sentences with phrase «of epilepsy»

It just stood out as especially significant across multiple forms of epilepsy in patients.

It's currently being explored as a potential treatment for certain types of epilepsy as well.

It was originally used in the treatment of epilepsy in humans where it was noticed that it helped with pain as well.

It has been studied extensively for its role in treatment of epilepsy, but everyone with a lot of weight to lose does not suffer from recurring seizures.

There exist several causes of epilepsy including genetic, environmental and physiological factors.

Cat foods with a high glycemic index lead to elevated blood glucose levels, which can increase the risk of epilepsy, hypothyroidism, allergies, yeast infections, cancer and diabetes.

Originally it was used in the 1920s to treat severe cases of epilepsy in children, though now many people use variations of it for other outcomes.

This makes it possible to examine the processes which take place during the development of epilepsy in a living animal.

About 30 percent of epilepsy patients don't respond to drugs to prevent seizures.

The understandings gained from this research are part of the necessary foundation for developing treatments related to the causes and symptoms of epilepsy.

This breed also has a high incidence of epilepsy, which can be controlled with medications.

Other near relatives might be bred but only to mates without any recent family history of epilepsy.

«Ultimately, we want to understand what is different about that connectivity and the effect of epilepsy on the connections across the whole brain,» she said.

Your vet probably won't make a diagnosis of epilepsy until he or she has ruled out everything else.

About 60 % of patients will achieve control of their epilepsy with the first drug they use, whereas about 30 % do not achieve control with drugs.

Nearly 30 percent of epilepsy patients are resistant to drug therapy, so they have the option of surgery to remove their seizure onset zones.

Volunteers who ate veggies grown in wastewater had higher (but still safe) levels of an epilepsy drug in their urine, compared with subjects who ate freshwater - grown veggies.

We see a lot of epilepsy / seizure, often after a rabies vaccination.

But there could easily be hundreds of epilepsy genes, he says, many of which may not be affecting potassium channels.

With this kind of epilepsy, the cause is often unknown but there is often a strong suspicion that the epilepsy is inherited.

A consistent repetition of seizures over time is a hallmark sign of epilepsy.

One major insight draws on the fields of epilepsy and chronic pain syndrome, both of which are associated with abnormal brain activity.

Up to now, however, researchers could only speculate about how the abnormal structure of the cerebral cortex is linked at the molecular level to the occurrence of epilepsy.

Studies on animals have shown that ketones may help to even control the progression of epilepsy, decreasing symptoms over time.

For certain breeds, inheritance of epilepsy has been proven.

The prevalence of epilepsy in the general dog population has been estimated from 2 % to 5 %.

Parental income, education and home ownership were noted at the time of epilepsy onset, and patients were followed for an average of 26 years.

A European consortium of epilepsy researchers has reported the discovery of a new gene involved in severe childhood epilepsy.

Her research studies, investigating the mechanisms of and treatments for cognitive dysfunction in the setting of epilepsy, have been funded by federal, foundation, and industry grants.

Regardless of its presentation, the primary goal of epilepsy treatment is to decrease the number and duration of seizures, and to address the psychological distress that often accompanies the disease.

The exact cause for this type of epilepsy remains unknown, with genetic factors appearing to be key.

People with MS have higher rates of epilepsy than controls.

These dogs are known to have increased disease complications and shorter lifespan associated with poor seizure control, and account for much of the financial burden of epilepsy management.

«We've found the first dog epilepsy gene and may have explained part of the reason for the high numbers of epilepsy in dogs,» he said.

International veterinary epilepsy task force consensus report of epilepsy definition, classification and terminology in companion animals.

In all honesty, it hasn't done much to help in the way of his epilepsy.

The health class assumes the individual has reached age 16, follows the direction of their physician for the handling of their epilepsy and there are no serious medical causes for the condition.

I keep thinking of a student I taught with a rare and severe form of epilepsy.

Other types of epilepsy are caused by injuries to the brain and infectious diseases.

It's also the leading genetic cause of both epilepsy and autism.

A directional deep brain stimulation device for the treatment of epilepsy and other brain disorders.

If a private pilot has additional adverse risk factors, such as an aviation violation or history of epilepsy, life insurance carriers may require the aforementioned aviation exclusion rider.

It could potentially be used in the diagnosis of epilepsy and brain tumors in animals.

In animals, it either works or it does not, and acupuncture clearly works in cases of epilepsy.

«We can control about 70 percent of epilepsy in dogs,» he said.

Specific genetic factors were found to be the cause of epilepsy in 40 percent of patients evaluated for first presentation with seizures.

This is an image of neurons in the somatosensory cortex of mouse models of epilepsy used in the study.

Kate Hinz brought her daughter who suffers from a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome.